Forum Auctions: Online: Books and Works on Paper, 60426, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 04, 2026 - June 04, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 234 | Fourcroy Antoine Francois | Systeme des Connaissances Chimiques |
Paris | 1800-01 | Not Available | GBP 381.00 |
| 235 | Freud Sigmund | The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works |
1986 | Not Available | GBP 381.00 | |
| 236 | Hauy Rene-Just | Traite des Caracteres Physiques des Pierres Precieuses |
Paris | 1817 | Not Available | GBP 190.50 |
| 237 | Gren Frederic Charles | Principles of Modern Chemistry |
1800 | Not Available | Not Sold | |
| 238 | Macquer Pierre Joseph | Elemens de Chymie-Pratique; Elemens de Chymie Theorique |
Paris | 1751 | Not Available | GBP 190.50 |
| 239 | Magalotti Lorenzo | Tentamina Experimentorum Naturalium |
Leiden | 1731 | Not Available | GBP 203.20 |
| 240 | Mayow John | Opera Omnia Medico-Physica |
The Hague | 1681 | Not Available | GBP 330.20 |
| 241 | Harvey Gideon | The Art of Curing Diseases by Expectation |
1689 | Not Available | GBP 355.60 | |
| 242 | Biringuccio Vannoccio | Pirotechnia |
Venice | 1559 | Not Available | GBP 584.20 |
| 243 | Wallerius Johann Gottschalk; Agricola | Mineralogie, ou Description Generale des Substances du Regne Mineral |
Paris | 1753 | Not Available | GBP 215.90 |
| 244 | Bouger Pierre | Essai d'Optique sur la Gradation de la Lumiere |
Paris | 1729 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 245 | Becquerel Henri | Six papers documenting Becquerel's discovery of radioactivity |
Paris | 1896 | Not Available | GBP 1,016.00 |
| 246 | Pott Johann Heinrich | Chymische Untersuchungen welche furnehmlich von der Lithogeognosia |
Postsdam | 1746 | Not Available | GBP 279.40 |
| 247 | Pott Percivall | Observations on the Nature and Consequences of those Injuries to which the Head is liable from External Violence |
1768 | Not Available | GBP 406.40 | |
| 248 | Ptolemy | The Quadripartite; or, four books concerning the Influences of the Stars |
1786 | Not Available | GBP 241.30 | |
| 249 | Saussure Theodore de | Recherches Chimiques sur la Vegetation |
Paris | 1804 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 250 | Scheele Carl Wilhelm; Cavallo | Traite Chimique de l'Air et du Feu; A Treatise on the Nature and Properties of Air |
Paris | 1781-85 | Not Available | GBP 279.40 |
| 251 | Denon Vivant | Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt |
1802 | Not Available | GBP 431.80 | |
| 252 | Follie Adrien-Jacques | Voyage dans les deserts du Sahara |
Paris | 1792 | Not Available | GBP 254.00 |
| 253 | Ingrams W. H. | Chronology & Genealogies of Zanzibar Rulers |
Zanzibar | 1926 | Not Available | GBP 127.00 |
| 254 | Paterson William | A Narrative of Four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffraria |
1789 | Not Available | GBP 635.00 | |
| 255 | Speed John | Africae, described the manners of their habits, and buildinge |
1626 | Not Available | GBP 635.00 | |
| 256 | Tardieu Pierre Francois | United States of Nth. America; Carte des Etats-Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale |
1802 | Not Available | GBP 2,794.00 | |
| 257 | Koster Henry | Travels in Brazil |
1816 | Not Available | GBP 635.00 | |
| 258 | Meredith Louisa Anne Twamley | My Home in Tasmania |
1852 | Not Available | GBP 190.50 |
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Sotheby’s Geek Week
14-15 JulySotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000. -
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